Mm...
This was getting a little difficult.
As expected of fifth-grade Nether Script—comprehending it really did consume quite a bit of time.
The patterns possessed immense depth, and within that depth lay astonishing variations. For ordinary people, merely memorizing these complex patterns would probably take years, even decades—and that was assuming they had excellent memories and had undergone specialized training.
Cultivators had it somewhat better. Their powerful bodies gave their brains an extraordinarily high capacity for information, allowing them to memorize the vast and tangled content of Nether Script in a short time. For a Celestial Immortal, one character would take roughly three months.
A fifth-grade Nether Script passage contained around a hundred characters.
Memorizing one complete passage would take roughly twenty-five years.
True Immortals would undoubtedly be faster, able to compress that time to around ten years. Taiyi cultivators were even more remarkable, probably needing only a few months to finish memorizing it. And if they possessed talent beyond that of an ordinary Taiyi, the speed would naturally be even greater.
They could basically finish memorizing one passage in a month.
Of course, memorization was just memorization. After remembering it, one still had to condense it and give it form within the soul.
That placed extremely high demands on one's spirit. Cultivation heavily drained the soul, and the pressure of bearing it was immense as well. Both required time to adapt to bit by bit.
Take Li Su, for example. He could no longer be like he had been in the outer city, where a single glance brought instant understanding.
He needed to stop and study it. Memorization alone took quite some time, and condensation was the same. Finishing one passage and moving on to comprehend the next took about ten minutes from start to finish.
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